John Scott at the organ of Derby Cathedraldelights MIKE WHEELER

He opened with a bold, forthright account of Buxtehude's Praeludium in C, BuxWV 137, grabbing our attention with the rhetorical opening pedal solo, moving into a second section that positively skipped along, and from there into an alert fugue.

Everything throughout the evening, in fact, was sharply focused, from the delightfully crystal-cleartextures in J S Bach's 'Trio on Allein Gott in der Höh sei Her', BWV 664, to the feather-light opening of Marco Enrico Bossi's Scherzo...